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Strangely, it slows down, i.e. it detects the further distance (less reflection?) in the same angle. I tried to put the US-sensor vertically. It still shows the same effect. I also notice the closer it comes the larger angle it needs to get a (...) (17 years ago, 23-Dec-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Submission for MOTM/SOTM/POTM closes in a week
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"Willy Tschager" <willy.tschager@tin.it> wrote in message news:JtGwC5.7K4@lugnet.com... (...) month the LDRAW files posted there are from? There's no indication at all which month the visitor is looking at just by clicking, and people that bookmark (...) (17 years ago, 22-Dec-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: A Power-Functions Remote-Controlled Car
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(...) Excellent video, Sivan - I can see this is fun to play around with. I have to admit that I was as of yet unaware of the power functions system. While I figure that an RCX with IR remote and some decent design work might also be quite (...) (17 years ago, 22-Dec-07, to lugnet.technic)
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| | LEGO Technic tora no maki!!!
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Il giapponesissimo Yoshihito Isogawa ha rilasciato a settembre scorso il suo libro "LEGO Technic tora no maki": (URL) libro è un PDF di ottanta megabytes (maremma carrettera!) in cui vengono spiegati, esclusivamente attraverso foto e illustrazioni, (...) (17 years ago, 22-Dec-07, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Submission for MOTM/SOTM/POTM closes in a week
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Hi folks, we still seek some entries for the MOTM/POTM contest: (URL) currently have 4 entries for the MOTM, 3 for the POTM and many for the SOTM. As you might know we will run these contests only if there are a minimum of five entries. Please (...) (17 years ago, 22-Dec-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce)
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(...) Why should it be so complicate. I think about a DLL that gets only some informations like: Filename(to render),LDrawPath, LDConfigPath, BackgroundColor, DefaultColor and hDC for output. All other stuff should be done in a black box. This would (...) (17 years ago, 22-Dec-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I just have tested this option and the result is that all stood still and can only be closed. This shut down then the complete GUI of VB5. Thats my first feedback for this. In general I would like more a dll or whatever, that I can show also (...) (17 years ago, 22-Dec-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New Indiana Jones Sets at Toys-R-Us
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(...) Don't you just love how TRU marks up almost all Lego sets by $1-$3? It's just like the "glory" days of KB, where they'd horrendously markup prices and then have "sales" that bring the price back to normal. Oh well. I had to have the sets (...) (17 years ago, 22-Dec-07, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: My attempt at a railway bridge
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(...) Ha, I had to build a bridge to complete my current layout- (URL) It's a suspension bridge, as it takes a oodle of parts to make any other total lego solution to 3+ m bridges. James Powell (17 years ago, 22-Dec-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: New Indiana Jones Sets at Toys-R-Us
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(...) The Toys-R-Us on Winchester in San Jose had all four sets available. The biggest set was $69.99 the other three were a dollar more than the suggested price. Bruce (17 years ago, 22-Dec-07, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | A Power-Functions Remote-Controlled Car
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I uploaded a video (with some stills in it) of a Power-Functions remote controlled car. It uses a dual-differential drive so that it can go straight well. (The video also shows stills of an earlier version that used a more conventional steering; but (...) (17 years ago, 22-Dec-07, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: NXT Program: How to avoid stop-and-go? (US-Sensor in angle)
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(...) At a glancing angle (not approaching the wall "head on" at 90°, but at an angle) very little sound energy will be reflected back towards the sensor. If there isn't enough energy reflected back for the sensor to "hear" the echo, it won't detect (...) (17 years ago, 22-Dec-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Displaying my set collections at LEGO-palooza
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Hello! That's a nice way to present your sets. Usually you just see them displayed in showcases or display-staircases or the like. That way the sets are hardly relating to each other. You however show a real Castle world. I like that. Bye Jojo (17 years ago, 22-Dec-07, to lugnet.events, lugnet.castle, lugnet.space)
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(...) [...] (...) [...] (...) Great gondola Elroy. I can't wait to see it. Chris (17 years ago, 22-Dec-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Technicopedia
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(...) [LEGOSet 880] (...) [LEGOSet 872] ROSCO (17 years ago, 22-Dec-07, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | Re: renderer.dll
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(...) Windows isn't really made for parenting other processes into another window. Many things seem to work, but sooner or later you stumble over something that doesn't, and there's no workaround. Also, it is not at all obvious that all the users of (...) (17 years ago, 22-Dec-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: NXT Program: How to avoid stop-and-go? (US-Sensor in angle)
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Brian, It works fantastic. Thanks. Now I've put 2 US Wait blocks. The 1st one to slow down for < 30cm and the 2nd one to turn for < 20cm. This works pretty well when the vehicle runs ~90 degree toward the wall. But when the angle is flat it only (...) (17 years ago, 22-Dec-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Technicopedia
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(...) Just by the way, back in those days LEGO also made a 12V technic motor that was the same size as the 4.5 but came in black. I actually used to have one that I got in a sealed box (!), and when testing it with a train speed regulator (12V grey (...) (17 years ago, 22-Dec-07, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | [FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group] Les nouveautés vendredi 21 décembre 2007
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Bonjour Voici la lettre d'information du site "FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group" ((URL) lettre recense les articles et les brèves publiés depuis 1 jour. Nouveaux articles ---...--- ** Set 7770 - Le chasseur de trésor sous-marin ** par (...) (17 years ago, 22-Dec-07, to lugnet.org.fr.freelug)
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| | Re: Technicopedia
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(...) Never... yet! Philo (17 years ago, 22-Dec-07, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | Re: renderer.dll
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(...) There's actually another alternative, and that would be to use LDView.exe itself. There's been code in LDView for a long time that is designed to allow an LDView renderer to show up as a child window of another program. It was never completed, (...) (17 years ago, 22-Dec-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New Indiana Jones Sets at Toys-R-Us
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I went to the Toys-R-Us store and purchased some of the new LEGO Indiana Jones Sets. Set #7620 (Motor Cycle Chase) that would normally retail for $9.99, sold for $10.99. Set #7622 (Race for the Stolen Treasure) retailed for $30.99, and Set #7621 (...) (17 years ago, 22-Dec-07, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Technicopedia
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(...) Thanks. Even though much of it is common knowledge for us, it took a whole lot of collecting, building, and searching the Internet to acquire that knowledge. My goal here is to put a lot of that knowledge together in one place. I am certainly (...) (17 years ago, 21-Dec-07, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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(...) By the way, I noticed that your site only looks at the 9V motors. Have you ever dissected or tested one of these 4.5V motors? Eric (17 years ago, 21-Dec-07, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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(...) Good point, Philo. I did not choose very good wording here. What I meant was that, as a DC motor, there is no "hot" terminal and no "neutral" terminal. Therefore, you cannot hook it up wrong and damage it. I'll go back and see if I can clean (...) (17 years ago, 21-Dec-07, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | Re: New Indiana Jones Sets at Toys-R-Us
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(...) In addition, Temple Escape and Race for the stolen treasure are also in stores in Hayward, CA and Foster City/San mateo, CA (Bay Area) I bought the Motorcycle Chase and the Race For Stolen... this morning. Paul Sinasohn LUGNET #115 (17 years ago, 21-Dec-07, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) Eric, this is a fantastic resource you are creating. I can't wait to see further updates - even if for some of us what you write is common knowledge, it still makes good reading and I always find something new to appreciate. As a side note, (...) (17 years ago, 21-Dec-07, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | Re: renderer.dll
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(...) The best bet (and one option I've been eying for a while) is LDView. It's source is open and it's written generically enough that it could be completely cross platform. -Orion (17 years ago, 21-Dec-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Technicopedia
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Hi Blakbird, Little note about 4.5V motor: when you say "The motor is DC, so polarity is not important."... precisely since it is a DC motor, polarity IS important, rotation direction depends on it... Philo (17 years ago, 21-Dec-07, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | Re: 5 button simplex locks
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(...) Chris, I've been working on variations on my pneumatic inchworm, so I've got pneumatics on the brain again. I've got to break the camera out soon. I've got a 3 piston 3 switch octopod that I got working. I've also got a 7 segment inchworm with (...) (17 years ago, 21-Dec-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | [FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group] Les nouveautés jeudi 20 décembre 2007
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Bonjour Voici la lettre d'information du site "FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group" ((URL) lettre recense les articles et les brèves publiés depuis 1 jour. Nouvelles brèves ---...--- * Numéro 12 de (3D)2 consacré aux briques LEGO. * - 20 (...) (17 years ago, 21-Dec-07, to lugnet.org.fr.freelug)
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| | Re: More OT: Bacon
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(...) snip (...) And all along I thought it was VEAL, that converted people to the "Meaty" side. Chris (17 years ago, 21-Dec-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: 5 button simplex locks
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(...) Thank you Kevin, I alway seem to "forget" pneumatics, but in this case, the simple on/off state of the piston would work just fine here. hummmm..... :) Chris (17 years ago, 21-Dec-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: mindscript (NBC NXC)
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(...) If you are running on a Windows platform then you can start with Bricx Command Center (BricxCC). It is an integrated development environment (IDE) that supports Not eXactly C (NXC) and NeXT Byte Codes (NBC) for the NXT brick running either the (...) (17 years ago, 21-Dec-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Bacon popcorn, - was something about my 24hr of my first day off
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(...) Mike, Thank you for your very kind words. I do this bacon stuph for people like you and me. Common every day "joe's" Last night, I was at my local grocery store, and saw bacon, on sale. Thats all I'm saying for now. Chris (17 years ago, 21-Dec-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | New Indiana Jones Sets at Toys-R-Us
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Amazon.com has the new Indiana Jones sets on sale as Pre-order with a date of January 1, 2007. (URL) has two of the sets on sale Motor Cycle Chase 298223 and Lost Tomb 296824 on sale $10.99 – $20.99 in sales flyer for Today and Saturday. (17 years ago, 21-Dec-07, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | valutazione 7864
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Ho un amico che ha trovato in cantina un 7864 MISB. (e nient'altro purtroppo) Secondo voi quanto può valere? ...bricklink valuta circa 45 dollari in su... Se servisse a qualcuno fatemi sapere al + presto (dovrei vederlo domani) Dino Baldi (17 years ago, 21-Dec-07, to lugnet.org.it)
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| | Re: More OT: Bacon
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(...) Ba da dumm!!! Thank you!!! He'll be here all week! Don't forget to tip your hostess.... Dave K (17 years ago, 21-Dec-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Grunts - Episode 3.
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(...) Thanks Dave, I'm virtually laughing my face off just now... Regards, Jerry (17 years ago, 21-Dec-07, to lugnet.build.military)
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| | Re: lego fest
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(...) Guarda qui: In lugnet.org.it.itlug.market, Emanuele Parodo wrote: C'è anche il tuo set. Ovviamente appari anche nelle didascalie della vetrina. Ciao Marco (17 years ago, 21-Dec-07, to lugnet.org.it.itlug.market)
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